ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,226, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Content based stereo signal processing" was invented by Jung Wook Hong (Irvine, Calif.), Janhavi Shriniwas Agashe (San Jose, Calif.) and Ian Eric Esten (Woodside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present solution can provide content based stereo signal processing for an audio system, such as an audio system of a vehicle. An audio system can include one or more processors of a data processing system coupled with memory to identify a stereo signal of an audio system of a vehicle. The one or more processors can determine a factor indicative of cor...